在两个世界之间：奥乌卡·莱蕾个展
展期：2008年10月11日至11月16日
地点：伊比利亚当代艺术中心
地址：中国北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路4号798艺术区E06
策展人：胡安·卡洛斯·莫亚·扎弗拉
艺术家：奥乌卡·莱蕾
主办：伊比利亚当代艺术中心，西班牙马德里Tomás y Valiente艺术中心（CEART）
特别支持：西班牙国际文化艺术基金会，马德里芬拉布拉达市政府文化部
出品人：高平
总监：夏季风
艺术总监：左靖
伊比利亚当代艺术中心推出的“两个世界之间：奥乌卡·莱蕾个展”，是西班牙艺术家奥乌卡·莱蕾（Ouka Leele）在中国的第一次个人回顾展。
这是北京伊比利亚当代艺术中心与西班牙马德里Tomás y Valiente艺术中心（CEART）继“诗意现实：对江南的一种解读——来自中国南方的当代艺术”展之后的第二次合作，后者曾于今年五月在马德里芬拉布拉达举办，引起轰动。这两次互动的展览是两家艺术中心签署友好交流合作协议的产物，该合作协议旨在中国和西班牙双向促进和推广两国艺术家的作品。
奥乌卡·莱蕾是西班牙著名摄影家，其艺术生涯可以追溯到七十年代末期，与同为女性的美国艺术家辛迪·舍曼（Cindy Sherman）一样，她作为欧洲的艺术家跻身于当时那个时代的标志性人物的行列。奥乌卡·莱蕾参与了上世纪八十年代著名的马德里新潮派文化运动（La Movida），这一文化潮流在二十世纪八十年代随着民主时代的到来、以马德里为中心席卷了整个西班牙，并影响了整个欧洲大陆。生于1957年的奥乌卡·莱蕾，自幼年起便开始画画，一直受到大自然与普拉多博物馆大师们风格的影响。1976年进入新兴摄影学校“摄影中心”学习，在那里，后来在八十年代西班牙艺术家所表达出的新观念开始被预见、并被表达出来。奥乌卡·莱蕾的创作一直游走于两个世界之间：绘画与摄影、灵魂与实体。还是艺术学生的时候，她就开始学习摄影，并从中发现了表达的新方式。对绘画的需求以及对黑白现实的迷恋驱使她将绘画与摄影相结合，并逐渐形成了个性化的艺术语言，籍此继续绘画同时运用摄影作为她对现实再创作的工具。
她的作品被其本人认为是“视觉诗歌、一种不以语言来表达的方式。是戏剧、想象、绘画和摄影的混杂。”，从中发展了极为个人化的艺术语言，融合了绘画与摄影两种形式。而评论界将她的作品归类于手绘摄影，并命名为水彩摄影，其创作过程分为四个步骤：拍摄照片、冲洗正片、上色及保存图片。她独特的个人化创作导致出现两种面貌：肖像——她以有难度的简化风格描绘现实的不同元素、不同主题；或以感性且私密的手法贴近、演绎自然与作为生命之母的女性世界。
由伊比利亚当代艺术中心和马德里Tomás y Valiente艺术中心策划的展览“奥乌卡·莱蕾：在两个世界之间”，是对该艺术家创作的一次综合回顾，展示了她的67件作品，涵盖了其1979年第一次个展“发廊系列”至今的整个艺术生涯，其中包括了她在上世纪八十年代著名的马德里新潮派文化运动（La Movida）期间创作的著名作品。
OUKA LEELE: Between Two Worlds
Dates: 11th October- 16th November
Venue: Iberia Center for Contemporary Art
Add: E06, 798 Art Zone, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Curator: Juan Carlos Moya Zafra
Artist: OUKA LEELE
Presented by: Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing│Centro de Arte Tomás y
Valiente (CEART), Fuenlabrada (Madrid)
Special Support: International Art&Culture Foundation(IAC)
Cultural Department of the Municipality of Fuenlabrada(Madrid)
Producer: Gao Ping
Director: Xia Jifeng
Art Director: Zuo Jing
Iberia Center for Contemporary Art will present Ouka Leele: Between Two Worlds, the first retrospective of the Spanish artist Ouka Leele in China.
This exhibition is a further collaboration between Iberia Center for Contemporary Art of Beijing and Tomás y Valiente Art Center of Fuenlabrada (Madrid), following the exhibition Poetic Realism: A Reinterpretation of Jiangnan - Contemporary Art from South China held in Fuenlabrada (Madrid), May 2008, which has created a great sensation in culture scene. These exhibitions are results of the collaboration agreement between both Institutions to open a two-way channel to promote and develop the work of Chinese artists in Europe and Spanish artists in China.
Ouka Leele, a prestigious Spanish female photographer with an art career dating back to the late 70’s, ranks among the landmark figures of Europe as a contemporary of the American female artist Cindy Sherman. Ouka Leele participated into the new wave cultural movement La Movida, which began in Spain, especially in Madrid, during the 80s with the arrival of Democracy, and swept all over the European continent. Born in Madrid in 1957, Ouka Leele started painting when she was very young, always influenced by the Nature and the great masters from Museo del Prado. In 1976 she started her studies at Photocentro, an innovative photography school where you could glimpse the ideas that the young Spanish artists develop later in the 80s. Ouka Leele´s universe has always been between two worlds, painting and photography, the earthly and the spiritual. When she was studying fine arts at university, she also began to study photography, and a strong way to express herself was revealed to her. Driven by the need of painting and the fascination with black and white photography, she fuses both techniques and develops her personal artistic language. She still continues painting, but using photography to register the reality previously created by her.
In her work, the personal artistic language with the fusion of photography and painting, to quote her own metaphor, is “visual poetry, a manner of speaking without words, and a blend of drama, imagination, painting and photography”. A critic has named her work of black and white pictures hand-colored with watercolor as “fotoacuarelas” (watercolor photographies). The process takes four steps: take the picture, make the positive of the film, paint the positive, and conserve the image. Presently, her unique work develops along two paths: one is works of portraits, in which she interpretes reality with a difficult simplicity, the other a sentimental and intimate approach to the Nature, which is related to the concept of feminity and the creator of life.
Ouka Leele: Between Two Worlds is a comprehensive retrospective, organized by Iberia Center for Contemporary Art of Beijing and Tomas y Valiente Art Center of Fuenlabrada (Madrid), which will showcase a collection of 67 pieces of Ouka Leele´s works from all different stages of her artistic career: from Hairdresser´s Series of her first solo in 1979, and works of the 1980s during the new wave cultural movement in Madrid, La Movida.
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